The next SIRT-sponsored IT security roundtable will be in 9-10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 14, 2011, in Hale 301 on the topic of protecting credit card information. The payment card industry (PCI) has rather strict security requirements for any merchant that accepts credit cards for payment. If your department at K-State accepts credit card payments, then you must comply with these data security standards (DSS), for which version 2.0 was recently published.
Harvard Townsend, K-State’s chief information security officer, will provide an overview of PCI DSS 2.0 and plans for compliance at K-State. This primer will benefit both the staff who handle credit card transactions for a department as well as the IT staff who support the technology associated with credit card payments.
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